Landslide science and practice . Volume 4 Global environmental change / / Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti, Kyoji Sassa, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437936003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : Springer, 2013
• ISBN: 3-642-31337-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (413 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MargottiniClaudio; CanutiPaolo; SassaKyoji
• Disciplina: 551.307
• Soggetti: Global environmental change; Landslides
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Landslide scenarios accounting for climatic, geomorphological and geotechnical contexts -- pt. II. Landslides, land-use systems and food security -- pt. III. Wildfires and slope instability -- pt. IV. Landslides and extreme weather -- pt. V. Landslides as sediment sources -- pt. VI. Advances in the understanding of cold region landslides.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the fourth: Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning, Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring, Spatial Analysis and Modelling, Global Environmental Change, Complex Environment, Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation, Social and Economic Impact and Policies.